Music to motivate

Just cashed in an itunes card from my sister. Blasts from the past some new stuff. All good trainer or time trial music. Sometimes the old...

QUOTES OF THE DAY "The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dre...

NIXON AND THE TWO FACE OF AMERICA Some 40,000 Americans attended in " The concert for Bangladesh " (The first kind of Liveaid effo...

The world is your JavaScript-enabled oyster

Posted by Bret Taylor, Google Maps Product Manager If you like Google Maps , but think you could do something better, now's your chance....

The most fun you can have riding in a circle

Dirt crit recap: Had 3 people yesterday for the dirt crit. Though there was no dirt yesterday, just a gravel/grass circuit. Very non-techn...

TODAY'S LINKS * A letter to the Indian people by a Pakistani blogger. * Chana'd discusses the alleged threat of immigrant cultures ...

A TYPICAL BANGLADESH BASHING Out of an assorted image gallery of 30 odd pictures of Rickshaw art, Israel pundit finds one, which has a pic...

SEEKER OF THE TRUTH Sadiq M. Alam is a Bangladeshi studying in Singapore. He declares himself as simple, easy going and humble. His blog ...

Search gets personal

Posted by Sep Kamvar, Software Engineer, Personalized Search Team With the launch of Personalized Search , you can use that search history ...

Cover the earth

Posted by Bill Kilday, Google Earth Product Marketing Manager Last October Keyhole and Google joined forces to integrate satellite imagery ...

WHICH STATISTIC ARE YOU? "There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up, and the kind you make up."

It's like a garden

My wife was hassling me the other night as I was in the garage yet again working on the bikes. Are you working on your bike again? Well, d...

Google Video. Now with ... video!

Posted by Matthew Vosburgh, Google Video Software Engineer A couple of months ago we launched a video uploader so you could add your own v...

WHY BANGLADESH IS STRUGGLING TO LURE TOURISTS Imtiaz Muqbil writes an article in the Bangkok post analyzing the obstacles in attracting tou...

TODAY'S LINKS * Quiz: Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer ? (I got 7/10) * Dress code in a Dhaka fast food joint. * 50 Cooles...

INDO-BANGLA MEET ENDS WITH ISSUES REMAINING UNRESOLVED The two day long foreign secretary level meeting between Bangladesh and India could n...

THE FUTURE OF BANGLADESH POLITICS Futurebangla Network lists seven clues , which will be catalysts for the future events in Bangladesh polit...

Just call him Bruce

Posted by Biz Stone, Blogger team You'll never guess how I uploaded this photo of Brewster. Okay, maybe you could guess, but I'll te...

Get some protein with those carbs

Waffles with some protein. Not bad tasting. My sister talked to an endocrinologist and she suggested that she might be Insulin resistant. ...

TODAY'S LINKS * Cookies or no cookies (in your hard disk) that is the question. * The controversial Saira Bronson interviewed on Bangl...

BE POSITIVE Sameen has a brilliant post blasting all deshis who show disgust and disregard towards life in Bangladesh. She advises the teen...

LSAT PrepTest 28 Section 3 Question 19 Explanation | Logical Reasoning

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MAJORITY OF AMERICANS OPPOSE WAR WITH IRAQ According to the latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup survey : "59% of Americans oppose the war with ...

Reverse threads in your daily life

Raise your hand if you've ever tightened your pedals or BB cups when you wanted to loosen them... If you didn't know and you SHOULD...

An unfashionable blast from the past

My friend Ajax emailed me out of the blue. He had some old pictures in a box that he scanned onto his web page for me. I had ridden across ...

Back home

Well 1 week gone, back home now. It is so good to see my family again and be back home. Though this morning the kids were at their usual a...

THE SUBMARINE CABLE SAGA Integrity International, an organization based in UK reveals corruption in mammoth proportion in the deal of linki...

A MINISTER, A GIFTED CAR AND AN OIL COMPANY The Daily Star reports : State Minister for Energy AKM Mosharraf Hossain yesterday resigned over...

BIDISHA, BANGLADESH'S MUKHTARAN MAI Mukhtaran Mai is a woman who was sentenced by a tribal council in Pakistan to be gang-raped because...

'BANGLADESH WIN' IN THE MEDIA I am collating here some of the interesting media coverages on the victory of Bangladesh over Australi...

LSAT PrepTest 42 Section 1 Question 14 Explanation | Logic Games

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THANK YOU AUSTRALIA I am writing this shortly after Bangladesh’s historic win against Australia in a Natwest trophy one-dayer. According to...

One man's food pyramid

Posted by Michael Krantz, Google Blog Team We may choose to eat only healthy food here at the Googleplex. The cafes serve sumptuous veggies ...

The world in your pocket

Posted by Steven Schirripa, Software Engineer Since millions of people across the globe already use mobile phones like there's no tomorr...

SOME LINKS * Who can stop the rise of China ? * Showcased sweetmeats are not what they seem - bad news for Bangladeshis * A letter to the P...

LSAT PrepTest 40 Section 1 Question 17 Explanation | Logical Reasoning

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Update

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THE RAINY SEASON COMES WITH ITS TRUE COLORS বাদল দিনের প্রথম কদম ফুল "Kodom flower" - only blooms in the rainy season After almost...

Shoulda paid more attention in school

It can be rare that anything you learned in school is ever required in your daily life, especially with regards to cycling. But when it com...

THE GRAPE OF FOREIGN EDUCATION TURNING SORE ON BANGLADESHIS It is really hard for the average Bangladeshis to afford higher education abroad...

Trival training

Back to the bikes With impending travel and time off the bike, I tried to hit it hard before the trip. Weds-Intervals Thrus-2hr hard road r...

Real lreal ife

Life has a way of getting in the way of the cycling life we live in our BLOGs. Work, kids, spouses, etc. But sometimes real real life com...

TODAY'S LINKS * The breast-bottle - a new sensation for the infants * Chinese blogs face restrictions . * See what happens when cats u...

Google got me a camera...

Posted by Michael Krantz, Google Blog Team ...so from now on, we can all look forward to weekly slices of digital-photography life from the ...

LSAT PrepTest 33 Section 1 Question 20 Explanation | Logical Reasoning

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Achey knees

Not sure why but over the last few weeks my knees have been achey after rides. Not too tender like an overuse. My god how could I get an o...

Power to the (short) people

I am shall we say on the vertically challenged side of things. In cycling it really isn't that big a deal like it is in basketball or v...

QUOTES OF THE DAY "Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed." - Bernard Berenson 1...

BANGLADESH NATIONAL BUDGET 2005-2006 This site promises live webcasting of the national budget. But I am only getting a running text commen...

THE PLIGHT OF THE STATELESS PEOPLE - CAUGHT IN THEIR OWN MESS It was pretty disturbing to hear the news that due to an entanglement between ...

A NEW PRODUCTIVE BLEND Last year I wrote about the decline of tea exports in Bangladesh. This has happened due to the fact that the interna...

Pain does not discriminate

Been so focused and bike geeked out lately: breaking down one frame and parting it out for sale, moving parts over from one to another, tran...

THE GOLDEN FIBER OF BENGAL Jute , nicknamed "Golden Fiber" is a 100% bio-degradable, recyclable, long, soft, shiny plant fiber t...

TODAY'S LINKS * Persecution of Bangladesh is just not cricket. * London shamed by Bangladesh. * Tanya's top ten things she won...

LSAT PrepTest 42 Section 4 Question 17 Explanation | Logical Reasoning

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LSAT PrepTest 33 Section 3 Question 21 Explanation | Logical Reasoning

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June 2005 LSAT

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Art of the jury rig

Converted the hardtail over to 8speed 1x8 rigid. Required ebay scores and scrounging the parts bin and some creative thinking. Kona Project...

tubes-sheesh

Built up the hardtail into a rigid rocket. Took out the Stan's No Tubes and put tubes back in the tires and pumped them up to 50psi. S...

WHAT'S HOT OR NOT * Return Darjeeling to Bangladesh, if no to Gorkhaland: Subash Ghising , GNLF leader * High Drama staged in Banglades...

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